Family

Divorced Family Many movies, like the movie “Parenthood” show how life is messy and the struggles of being a family. I have lived it. There is no way to watch the movie “Parenthood” and say, “My family is perfect, and nothing ever goes wrong”. That would be way too unrealistic because every person is not perfect, thus creating a not so perfect family. Not all of us have grandparents, or if we do they may be a little crazy. We may also not have parents who are still together, which is just…

The term ‘family’ is believed to be easily defined by most people, and almost always involves the image of a two parents and their children. Despite this, sociologists have been debating the true meaning of family for years, and although multiple definitions have come up, none provide an explanation broad enough to cover its spectrum. For example, Oxford Dictionaries has a lot of definitions for this term. One of them is that family is “A group consisting of two parents and their children living…

What does our family mean to you? While conducting my research over the week, I became open to a lot of things I didn’t know my family thought. My question was “What does our family mean to you?”, and asking this didn’t end up changing my original hypothesis at all. My hypothesis originally was that all of the answers I received from my family would be relatively the same; that we are very close and overall a very happy family. I believe doing this research showed me how all of my family…

T. Haidery ENG4U7-01 322434838 Mr. Glen Wednesday October 14th, 2015 Word count: 896 An Analyzation of a Chosen Passage from Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family “The shapes [of Ceylon] differ so much they seem to be translations … growing from mythic shapes into eventual accuracy” (Ondaatje, 45). Throughout Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje’s quest to uncover his Ceylonese heritage and Ceylon itself, has grown from myths, rumours and led to “eventual accuracy” (45). The chapter…

What is makes a family? The family unit across cultures is as diverse as the many landscapes of our world. While the view on the family seems to be set by Western ideals, the majority of the globe has a more complex family structure which includes not only the nuclear unit of a father, mother and children, but a more extended unit consisting of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. There has been much change in the family structure in the past few decades the nuclear family is becoming…

Technology and today’s modern family. Technology maintains a significant role in how we do things every day. The large volume of uses for technology these days is overwhelming, but using technology has become required to function in today’s modern society. Technology provides a vital function in today’s family culture, from entertainment to schoolwork and work related activities. What are the effects on today’s family dynamic? Can technology actually bring families closer together or can it…

Family is a very important part of society and how the society acts, and with this, culture and values can be reflected and observed by looking at the structure and relationships within a family. In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, for the Igbo culture, family structure is by far one of the most important parts of society. Some may say that the most important theme of the Igbo is religion and change, but it seems that without the sense of structure and society, that is bounded to…

Almost everyone can relate to the concept of family. Most people have at least one fond memory of their childhood, spent with family, either biological or chosen. If not, someone can relate the themes of love and family to their adult life, possibly with their own kids. The texts involved can hopefully be relatable to both children and adults. My little library aims to draw on those memories and allow people to reminisce on times in their life when family was influential as well as inclusive and…

For the family interview, I decided to meet with one of my friends to interview her about her family. We started by focusing on her whole family tree, including all of her aunts, uncles, and cousins. After we went over the entire family, I asked her questions about the members she has a significant relationship with and asked about their education, occupation, interests, health problems, and friendships. The person that I interviewed is in a serious relationship, so we went over her partner’s…

As someone who always wanted to create family tree, I decided that’s this project is a good opportunity for me to do a family tree about my family in regard to sexuality. At first, it seems like a tough and daunting task for me because I found it difficult to ask my parents and grandparents about things such as, sexual violence, sexual orientation and affairs, etc. However, as I get to know more about my family’s personal experiences when it comes to sexuality, I realized that there are a lot of…